9.4.11 Transport, access, parking and servicing code

9.4.11.1 Application

(1) This code applies to assessing:

(a) operational work which is assessable development if this code is identified as a prescribed secondary code in the assessment benchmarks column of a table of assessment for operational work (section 5.8); or

(b) a material change of use or reconfiguring a lot if:

(i) assessable development where this code is identified as a prescribed secondary code in the assessment benchmarks column of a table of assessment for a material change of use (section 5.5) reconfiguring a lot (section 5.6), or an overlay (section 5.10); or

9.4.11.2 Purpose

(1) The purpose of the Transport, access, parking and servicing code is to assess the suitability of the transport, access, parking and servicing aspects of development.

(2) The purpose of the code will be achieved through the following overall outcomes:

(a) Development provides for access, circulation, parking and vehicle-based services for all relevant transport modes, including walking, cycling and public transport relevant to the nature of the proposed development and its location in relation to the transport network and surrounding existing and future land uses.

(b) Development enhances the potential for trip making other than by private vehicle.

(c) Development provides safe access for all transport modes that does not impact adversely on the efficiency and safety of the transport network or diminish the amenity of nearby land uses.

(d) Development ensures that impacts on amenity caused by traffic generation is consistent with the community’s reasonable expectations for the intended use.

(e) Development provides site access arrangements to ensure that any adverse impacts on other development, the transport network and those who use it, are minimised to maintain amenity of the area and the safety and efficiency of the transport system.

(f) Development ensures that access, parking and servicing arrangements and impacts such as noise, are consistent with the community’s reasonable expectations and avoid risk of damage to people, property and vehicles.

(g) Development maximises safety in the use of the transport network, particularly for the most vulnerable users (children, pedestrians, persons with disabilities and cyclists) so that all transport modes are safe and convenient.

(h) Development provides for walking and cycling routes and end-of-trip facilities for pedestrians and cyclists, designed and located to make walking and cycling attractive and viable transport options.

(i) Development envisaged by the planning scheme, which will potentially have an adverse impact on the operation of the transport network, is designed and of a scale that maintains the safety and efficiency of the transport network.

(j) Development provides for on-site parking and manoeuvring areas for cars, motorcycles, bicycles and service vehicles which:

(i) are safe and convenient to use;

(ii) if outside the City core and the City frame identified in Figure a are adequate to meet the design peak-parking demands without significant overflow to adjacent premises or the generation of excessive on-street car parking demand, taking into account the requirements of other road users.

(k) Development provides for on-site servicing that is safe, convenient to use, but discrete, and adequate to meet the reasonably expected demands generated by the development, without significant adverse impacts on the external road system or adjacent premises.

(l) Development accommodates future road upgrades and widenings ensuring the ongoing capacity, efficiency and safety of the transport network.

9.4.11.3 Performance outcomes and acceptable outcomes

Table 9.4.11.3—Performance outcomes and acceptable outcomes

Performance outcomes

Acceptable outcomes

PO1

Development is designed:

(a) to include a technically competent and accurate response to the transport and traffic elements of the development;

Development of a major size incorporates on-site provision for integration with the public transport network and the management of vehicles, public transport, pedestrians and cyclists, including providing appropriate pedestrian and cyclist linkages to adjoining uses, public areas and the transport network consistent with the planning by the Queensland Government and Council.

AO2

No acceptable outcome is prescribed.

PO3

Development provides vehicle access that is located and designed so as to have no significant impact on the safety, efficiency, function, convenience of use or capacity of the road network.

Development provides an easement for a vehicular access benefiting all adjoining landowners and the Council if the vehicular access services more than an individual development or premises.

PO4

Development provides walking and cycle routes through the site which:

(a) link to the external network and pedestrian and cyclist destinations such as schools, shopping centres, open space, public transport stations, shops and local activity centres along the safest, most direct and convenient routes;

Development provides pedestrian and cyclist access to and from the site which is located to take advantage of safe crossing points of the adjacent road system, key destinations and public transport facilities.

AO8

No acceptable outcome is prescribed.

PO9

Development provides access driveways in the road area that are located, designed and controlled to:

(a) minimise adverse impacts on the safety and operation of the transport network, including the movement of pedestrians and cyclists;

(b) ensure the amenity of adjacent premises, from impacts such as noise and light.

Development provides that an internal approach to an access driveway in the road area is designed and located to provide for the safety of pedestrians and cyclists using paths adjacent to the frontage of the site, and motorists.

Development outside of the City core and City frame as identified in Figure a provides on-site car parking spaces to accommodate the design peak parking demand without any overflow of car parking to an adjacent premises or adjacent street.

AO13

Development outside of the City core and City frame as identified in Figure a:

Note—For accepted development subject to compliance with identified requirements including an existing premises, no reduction to existing car parking is required to comply with a maximum car-parking rate in the Transport, access, parking and servicing planning scheme policy.

PO14

Development ensures that the number of car parking spaces and design of the car parking area:

If for development which is required to be serviced by a b-double (Austroad class 10 vehicle), multi-combination vehicle, over-dimensioned vehicle or any on vehicle identified by the Queensland Government as requiring a permit to operate on the road (freight-dependent development)

PO21

Development which is freight-dependent development ensures that the traffic generated by the development does not impact on:

(a) the operation of the transport network;

(b) the safety and amenity of a residential area;

(c) a road not constructed to accommodate a non-standard vehicle such as a road only constructed to accommodate a vehicle that has a legal right of access to all roads including Austroads vehicles classes 1–9.

AO21.1

Development which is freight-dependent development is located on a site which:

(a) has frontage to or direct access to the freight network in the Road hierarchy overlay via roads in a zone in the Industry zones category; or